Posted on 07/27/2016 11:24:47 AM PDT by MichCapCon
CLEVELAND — For more than a week, barricades and almost four miles of nine-foot-tall security fencing have enclosed a perimeter encompassing several blocks of the city’s downtown. No, it’s not a post-apocalyptic scene from “The Walking Dead." It’s the borderline martial law at the 2016 Republican National Convention.
In preparation for the 50,000 visitors flooding Cleveland for the convention, main arteries into the city are cut off, making way for "stand-off distance" around Quicken Loans Arena, the primary convention venue.
Of the 50,000 attendees, 12,470 delegates, 2,302 alternate delegates, and 15,000 journalists converged on the city for the convention.
The federal government sent $50 million to bulk up Cleveland’s security, according to the Congressional Research Service, most of which will pay for police overtime. The Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia also got $50 million in federal funding.
The CRS report says that the $100 million was appropriated “primarily to reimburse states and localities for law enforcement costs associated with their participation in securing the convention sites.”
The 2012 Democratic and Republican conventions were allocated $68.2 million each, $136.5 million total.
Various federal agencies sent 4,000 agents to police the Cleveland convention. Some 3,000 agents are from the Secret Service, TSA, and Customs and Border Protection. Another 1,000 are unspecified government personnel.
The Cleveland Police Department has 550 officers policing the convention on foot, bike and horseback. The Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department and law enforcement officers from Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Florida and New Jersey, among other states, are on hand.
In March, Cleveland police ordered riot armor, batons, and bulletproof gear in preparation for potential riots, CNNMoney reported.
The city estimated 11,310 demonstrators have been registered with organizations holding events, according to NBC News.
Tuesday night, law enforcement was tested when around 500 people gathered in Cleveland’s Public Square. Fights broke out but no arrests were made, Cleveland.com reports. On Wednesday, reports the Los Angeles Times, 18 protesters were arrested as groups clashed in the street. The Daily Caller reports that two police officers suffered minor injuries.
How many protestors? Answer: another 50 thousand.
The Republican convention had a fence/wall too ?
2500 delegates not 12,000 as stated in the article.
Typo or stupidity? Common Core reporting?
July 21, 2016. No wonder it sounded like it was written during the convention.
And this differs from what’s going on in Philadelphia how?.....
Wait - I know - you never saw the kinds and numbers of angry protestors in Cleveland that you did on Fox Business channel last night in Philadelphia - trying to knock that fence over....
Philly has been different. Protestors have been trying to block train stations between the hotel district and the venue. More protestors despite the oppressive weather. More weirdness, like lefties chanting "off with her head!" at the fence line.
Gee....and the MSM isn’t even reporting on this YUGE contrast, between the two conventions, are they?
The Democrat fence is a diverse welcoming fence, not the same thing at all.
Fox Business has good coverage of the protests..I just discovered it yesterday thanks to FR posters.
They showed the whole ugly truth last night.
Yes...it was amazing! I was watching it, LIVE, on FoxBiz. I posted that the mobs were mad and climbing the BarryCades :)
It took Lou Dobbs a few minutes to even realize what was happening, but he quickly tuned in to what was happening and FoxBiz stayed with it. They were the only ones, AFAIK, that were even reporting on the protesters.
Unreal....the other networks were just all lollipops and roses, (pretending to be) oblivious to the outside activities.
I watched about a minute of Bill...Gagged at the mention of how he wooed Hillary and turned him off!
LOL...same here!! I couldn’t handle (any more of) Bill’s fibs. ;-)
I have a feeling MANY more did the same....but the MSM will only continue their fawning and faking the viewer numbers.
Notice they never reported numbers in Cleveland? That is because the numbers were so small. You would get bigger crowds on the opening night of a movie.
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